I asked about what is "Client S/W" a few years back and got answer that S/W stand for software.
To me this S/W is not a good name and causing unnecessary question from peer admins and users. I am hoping to change it to "Client version" or something more meaningful than "Client S/W".
I looked and search the src tree, "Client S/W" only show up once in hobbitsvc-info.c and the variable is "clientvertext" so "Client version text" is a good name to replace "Client S/W" also.
Please express your comment, I will implement the change if there is no objection by the end of next week.
R1:./web/hobbitsvc-info.c <snip> sprintf(l, "<tr><th align=left>Client S/W:</th><td align=left>%s</td></tr>\n", clientvertxt); <snip>
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Hi TJ,
I asked about what is "Client S/W" a few years back and got answer that S/W stand for software.
To me this S/W is not a good name and causing unnecessary question from peer admins and users. I am hoping to change it to "Client version" or something more meaningful than "Client S/W".
Your problem here is going to be the fact that s/w is the de facto standard abbreviation for software. Likewise h/w is the abbreviation for hardware. It has been like this for as long as I have been in the computing industry (which is about 24 years) so you are going against a very long time of usage.
I'm not saying that you are wrong, just that s/w has been around forever so there are many who would not like the change.
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Hi, Martin
I was hoping to see "Client S/W" got changed to "Client version text" to clearly express that the value in clientversion.cfg is just a "text of client version".
But since the math tell me +1-1=0. so no action will be taken.
tj
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Ward, Martin <Martin.Ward at colt.net> wrote:
Hi TJ,
I asked about what is "Client S/W" a few years back and got answer that S/W stand for software.
To me this S/W is not a good name and causing unnecessary question from peer admins and users. I am hoping to change it to "Client version" or something more meaningful than "Client S/W".
Your problem here is going to be the fact that s/w is the de facto standard abbreviation for software. Likewise h/w is the abbreviation for hardware. It has been like this for as long as I have been in the computing industry (which is about 24 years) so you are going against a very long time of usage.
I'm not saying that you are wrong, just that s/w has been around forever so there are many who would not like the change.
|\/|artin
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I was hoping to see "Client S/W" got changed to "Client version text" to clearly express that the value in clientversion.cfg is just a "text of client version".
But since the math tell me +1-1=0. so no action will be taken.
Are you going to do the same for "OS" for people that don't know what that stands for? And IP and URL... et cetera... et cetera... ?
Malcolm
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